Shoe-support.



A TTORNEY E. s. meuow. SHOE SUPPORT APPLICATION FILE'D JULY 27. I9I4.

Patented Apr. 3, 1917.

LQQJL A092;

no 7 whnmmum o c EDWIN S. RIGDON, 0F BEREA, OHIO.

SHOE-SUPPORT. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 3, 1.917.

Application filed. July 27, 1914. Serial No. 853,313.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN S. Brown, a citizen of the United States, residing at Berea, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device adapted to support a shoe for the purpose of polish ing the same, all. substantially as shown and described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of the device, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, and of a part of a table to which it is attached. Fig. 3 is an end elevation and Fig. I, a perspective detail of the post or standard upon which the device is supported.

The conception herein involves a convenient mechanism for receiving a shoe to polish the same when removed from the foot, and its essential details comprise means for gripping the sole and heel of the shoe to hold it firmly while otherwise the shoe is bodily exposed to be polished by the usual or suitable means, the post or standard 8 being of a length to give the shoe the desired elevation from a table 6 or other support.

The immediate shoe engaging members consist in the two curved or segmentally shaped arms ct having clamping jaws 2 at their outer ends adapted to engage over or upon the edge of the sole of the shoe at opposite sides back some distance from the toe, while the heel member la is a plate having heel engaging jaws 3 and is provided with two outer parallel slots I and a central ,slot 5 serving as a medium for adjusting said heel plate back and forth in respect to the fixed plate 6 and which plates are in loose or slidable relations with each other through the headed rivets 7; that is, the heel plate is slidably supported on the fixed plate 6.

At the opposite end of the device, the clamping arms a have segmental slots 8 engaged by free rivets 9 with the fixed front plates 10 and slidable thereon, and the two plates 6 and 10 with the curved or crescent shaped support 12 are rigid with each other and practically constitute a frame on which the arms a and heel plate h are slidably mounted within variable limits and accord ing to the size of the shoe to be polished.

To these ends, the said parts a and h are provided with swivel studs 15 and 16 re spectively, the stud 15 being engaged through the overlapped ends of the clamping arms a and the stud 16 being fixed ection of lever (Z indicates that the clamps for the shoe are open. Then upon swinging the said lever on its pivot 18, the eccentric connection 17 will be swung to its opposite ex treme and the shoe will be clamped in the holder. This, of course, assumes that the clamps have been adjusted through the screw 20 to receive a shoe of the size then to be polished. whether of achild or an adult or for man or woman.

The middle slot 5 in heel plate it serves as a guide way on the curved support 12 which is made of sheet metal and passes through said slot.

The standard 8 is a separate part and has a clamping jaw and screw 22 at its bottom to afiix to a table or the like and an open slot 24 at its top adapted to receive the support 12 edgewise and to be fastened therewith by a set screw 25. By making the said support 12 curved as shown, I can set the holder at different inclinations as seen by full and dotted lines Fig. 2 and by which means one can accommodate the position of the shoe to a given seat by the polisher. Furthermore by clamping the immediate holder on the standard, the said parts are separable for packing and shipping. Ordinarily the standard 8 is about a foot in length. In position the clamping members a and h are beneath the plates 6 and 10. The fixed heel plate 6 also has a turned up-lip 26 at its inner end and an adjusting screw 27 through said lip to engage the inner shoulder of the heel of the shoe.

The immediate rest for the foot is comprised in the said frame with the plates 6 and 10 and the depending rigid connecting portion or plate 12 which is adjustable in and removable from the standard 8.

In setting up the device the standard 8 usually is first put in place and then the foot rest or frame is clamped therein. After this has been done, the parts are adjusted to suit the size of the shoe to be polished and then the manipulation of lever (i does the balance and the shoe is firmly in the grip of the holder. It is as easily removed by swinging said lever to open position, full lines, Fig. '1.

What I claim is:

A device to hold shoes to be polished comprising a standard with an open slot vertically in its top, in combination with a foot-rest consisting of two separate horizontally disposed plates spacedrapart at the middle of the device and a substantially crescent shaped support having said plates rigidly fixed upon its ends and adjustably mounted in said slot, clamps for the shoe on the under side of said plates and a rotatable adjusting screw connecting said clamps across the middle of said device and exposed between said plates to be gripped by hand to rotate the same and adapt said clamps to shoes of different sizes. In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN S. RIGDON. Witnesses R. B. Mosnn, F. J. FREER.

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